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Sunday December 28th 2025
2019 East Lake Made an Empty lot
The original Post and Beam, infrastructure, Vine Church built at Hiawatha and Lake St., moved to 2019 E. Lake before additions were made making the building”'s shape less obvious are revealed in this photo during demolition for the land fill without any salvaging of materials! City required spraying with water during demolition to control contaminants, including lead, was not done by the Contractor or enforced by the Mpls. Schools Facilities Dept! The site is surrounding by a shopping center, YWCA, South High School and Athletic Field, and Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery.
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Book review of “The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street” Poignant and Delightful Short Stories by Jacob M Appel
By Claudia P. Slovacek
It”'s been a few months since I put down this collection of short stories by Jacob Appel, but some of them remain embedded in my sub-conscience. Appel has been added to my “must read more by this author” list. Unfortunately, since I”'m in two book clubs and the last quarter of the year tends to be my busiest at work, I haven”'t had a lot of additional free time to pick up other volumes by this author. I will though, and I recommend you do so as well.
Appel has an amazing way of painting various portraits of the human condition in all its pain, joy, banality and splendor of our interactions with others who inhabit our shared space. Sometimes this is quite literally as in the story of “The Current Occupant”. This tale finds us with a couple whose prefabricated house has been delivered and installed at the wrong address. That it now ensconces the husband”'s former college sweetheart adds to the dilemma of how they might go about rectifying this delivery error. Past indiscretions impact current and future relationships, sometimes for a reason, but more often, only because we fear those indiscretions are perceived as worse than they really were.… Read the rest “Book review of “The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street” Poignant and Delightful Short Stories by Jacob M Appel”
Top Ten Movies of 2016
1. “Moonlight” (R) Running time: 111 minutes. Director: Barry Jenkins. A young African American goes from childhood and adulthood in Miami with many struggles including his sexuality. Drama.
2. “Manchester by the Sea” (R) Running time: 137 minutes. Director: Kenneth Lonergan. A working class handyman suffering from depression has to face the tragedy in his past after his brother dies and leaves him sole guardian of his nephew. Drama.
3. “Fences” (PG-13) Running time:139 minutes. Director: Denzil Washington. The late African American playwright August Wilson”'s “Fences” is transferred to silver screen by Denzil Washington. A working class African American father raising a family in Pittsburg in the 1950s.
4. “Hidden Figures”(PG)Running time:127 minutes. Director: Theodore Melfi. Based on a true story and one of many denials of black Americans great achievements. This film depicts a team of college educated African American women”'s mathematical genius that leads to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to launch the first successful space missions. Drama/History.
5. “Loving”(PG-13) Running time: 123 minutes. Director: Jeff Nichols. The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, married in Washington D.C., but are arrested when they move back to Virginia, a state with anti-miscegenation laws. Drama/Romance/Biography.
6. “Arrival” (PG-13) Running time: 116 minutes.… Read the rest “Top Ten Movies of 2016”
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